Hi,
I read Dougs answer and want to add that the bios may be not loaded
because there are no INT13h devices on the bus like hdds are.
I had some of those 2920 and they worked fine under Linux; also under
Windoof because Windoof detects the chipset and loads the driver itself
(check if Windoof loads the Future domain... follow Doug for the rest).
Try to load the driver without options; maybe it works (I only had to
give options in a few cases).
Greetings, Dietmar
James wrote:
>
> i've just bought this card and it's not working in Linux. In windows it
> works fine (typical!).
>
> When i boot my PC it displays my graphics card's info (Matrox Mystique 220 +
> rainbow Runner), then my normal BIOS/CMOS/ram check screen, then the
> SCSI card's bios displays itself and prompts me to press ^A to enter the
> setup program, if i leave it it'll detect all the devices on my scsi bus
> (i have a Traxdata CDR 4120EL PRO cd writer at scsi id 0, the card is id 7)
> but then it displays this:
>
> SCSI BIOS Not Loaded!
>
> and then the machine carries on and boots. I have told the card to load the
> bios (the card's Irq is 7 and it's base addr. is 0x6800).
>
> My kernel is 2.0.36 and i compiled the fdomain scsi driver into my kernel,
> passing this when at the lilo prompt:
>
> fdomain=0x6800,7,7,1
>
> when the kernel boots i get:
>
> scsi: 0 hosts
>
> and a message from the fdomain driver saying it can't find the card at
> 0x6800 which makes sense since the card couldn't load the bios into ram
> at that address.
>
> Is this just a badly configured system, or is the card knackered? It's
> got Bios v1.32 on it.
>
> is there a way of making the card use some other address? i can force the
> card into any irq in my system by assigning an irq to the pci slot it's
> in...
>
> I have these cards in my system:
>
> Matrox Mystique 220 + Rainbow Runner daughter board (PCI)
> Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 (PCI)
> Adaptec 2920 scsi card (PCI)
> 3com 3c509
> Gravis ultrasound PnP
>
> i've tried running my system with just the scsi and graphics cards in
> and it still won't load the bios into ram
>
> and yes, i've read the SCSI-Howto and the comments at the top of the
> fdomain.c driver, they just say kernel parameters need passing.
>
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